Posts Tagged ‘Product Review’
Yoga Equipment from Kulae
August 18th, 2010 by Ben RemingtonKulae is a new name to the Yoga equipment world. Their motto is clean & green and they continue to refine and improve their products, as well as introduce new ones, that safely support your health and practice while protecting our environment.
Kulae offers equipment such as mats, towels, props as well as various accessories to choose from at their website. All lines of the tpECOmats are 100% biodegradable, 100% recyclable, and contain NO PVC, NO latex, NO cadmium, NO lead and NO rubber (that means NO allergies). The eco yoga mats are dual layer constructed, providing two color options and two distinct, grippy surfaces for you to choose, all in one mat. The eco mats are made of eco-conscious TPE using closed cell technology. What that means for you is that bacteria and germs cannot get “trapped” in the mat, as is the case with most natural rubber mats and traditional PVC mats (which use open cell construction). You will get the grip of a traditional “sticky” mat without the smell, the heavy carrying weight and lingering odors found in traditional rubber/PVC mats. The durability, comfort and traction of the tpECOmat™ family of mats are second to none. They are so confident you will love your kulae eco yoga mat, that they guarantee your satisfaction 100%.
Kulae also donates a generous portion of their proceeds to various charities. So far this year, they have partnered with Yokid + Mandala House to focus their charity work within the yoga community.
All of the equipment offered by Kulae seems to be priced competitively and with Kulae’s added value they may have the best products for the price. If you have an interest in their products and want to stay updated on their latest news & information; you can follow them on Facebook and Twitter. Also, have the chance to win some of their products over at Sportrabbit.com.
The Elliptical Street Bike from ElliptiGo
August 12th, 2010 by Ben RemingtonWith all the focus on becoming more active and healthy these days, people are looking for new and innovative ways to get into shape and stay that way. There have been many inventions in this field, some better than others. Meanwhile, some staples of the fitness world have remained tried and true, and have cemented their places en mass at gyms worldwide.
Elliptical trainers have become all the rage in the fitness world, replacing traditional treadmills by the dozens thanks to increased comfort and a full body workout. With all this popularity, there has become a spinoff of sorts, targeting yet another timeless fitness product- the bicycle.
It’s called the Elliptigo 8S, and it blends the workout of the elliptical trainer with the transportation of the bicycle. The idea is a good one- as long as you want to ride somewhere, you should get a full body workout getting there. It looks exactly as you’d expect, an elliptical with wheels or a bike with elliptical legs, whichever you prefer. It is a bit pricey at $2,199, but nice road bikes can easily cost that much. Whether you want to go for a ride in the park or a possibly sweaty commute to work, I think the Elliptigo has you covered. The website has a great amount of testimonials, and plenty of features to answer all the questions you might have, along with some cool things that you may not have been looking for.
The Custom Mouthguard from Shock Doctor
August 5th, 2010 by Cale Loken
Several sporting good stores are touting the Custom Mouthguard from Shock Doctor as the best mouthguard you can buy. It has a multi layered integrated design that absorbs and redistributes impact to your brain. The mouthguard features a Patented CoreShock™ custom composite that forms precisely to your bite for unprecedented comfort. The Custom Mouthguard Includes a Satisfaction Guarantee and $30,000 Dental Warranty.
You can customize your mouthguard here through the Shock Doctor website. Select your style which offers two different levels of colors with 100 different combinations and personalize it with your jersey number or name. Once you purchase one of these, you follow the instructions in the kit to make a self-impression mold of your teeth and gums. If you want to watch a video instead, Shock Doctor provides one here.
Sporting good stores have been telling us that these are flying off the shelvs as soon as they come in. This is interesting because the mouthguard comes with a hefty $149.99 price tag, but it seems to be worth every penny for many athletes.
The New Xenith X1 Football Helmet
July 7th, 2010 by Ben RemingtonWith all of the attention recently put on concussions in pro sports, most notably football, baseball and pro wrestling, More focus has been put on making the equipment safer to prevent such things(except wrestling- a steel chair is still a steel chair).
Football is the a huge hot button topic for concussion covering scientists, with much research being done on former NFL players, and many findings of deceased players having some level of brain damage from their career, most recently Chris Henry. Protecting the idols of our country from an untimely death or dementia is a top priority for everyone involved, and there have been many different solutions to the problem. Remember the ProCap(right)? It was a huge foam shell painted to match the helmet’s colors that went on the top of the helmet to cushion blows. Did it work? Sure. The few bold enough to wear it loved it, protection-wise. Aesthetically pleasing? Not so much.
So solutions have been proposed have involved making just the helmets themselves safer, and a new company on the helmet front, Xenith, has tried just that.
Their product is the Xenith X1 helmet(left), and it’s technologies are supposed to prevent concussion incidents, thanks to an innovative new padding design. I haven’t been provided with any definitive data on the prevention subject, but here’s how it works-
The Shock Bonnet, as they call it, is a flexible plastic bonnet that lines the inside of the helmet, with a series of shock absorbers strategically placed around the inside of helmet, replacing the immovable firm foam liners of conventional helmets. The innovation here lies with the shock absorbers that take on impact, and release air slowly to cushion the blow from within the helmet, resulting in less head movement, and ideally, less concussions. Another innovation is the fit seeker system that draws a cable around the shock bonnet and provides a better fit when the helmet’s chin cup is locked into place. A better fit undoubtedly results in better protection, and as difficult as it is getting kids to put on a helmet that really truly fits, every little bit of help is paramount.
The X1 helmet will set you back a couple hundred bucks, which is a slight increase from most conventional youth helmets, but with concussion prevention and general safety on every parent’s mind, it may be a reasonable price to pay for those looking for the latest innovation in football protection. I don’t know that we will see these helmets in college or the NFL anytime soon, but due to the nature of injuries there, look for them to make a slow creep into mainstream, or look for the football helmet giants to come up with something similar.